May 2003 Montenegrin presidential election

May 2003 Montenegrin presidential election
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Registered458,888
Turnout48.32%
 
Candidate Filip Vujanović Miodrag Živković
Party DPS LSCG
Popular vote 139,574 68,169
Percentage 64.25% 31.38%
President before election

Filip Vujanović (acting)
DPS

Elected President

Filip Vujanović
DPS

Presidential elections were held in Montenegro on 11 May 2003.[1] They were the third such elections in six months, as those held in December 2002 and February 2003 had been declared invalid due to voter turnouts of less than 50%.[2] For the May election, the turnout rule was abolished. The result was a victory for Filip Vujanović, who was nominated by the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro and Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, who received 64.2% of the vote. Vujanović had also won both previous votes by a large margin. The elections were boycotted by the opposition Together for Change coalition.

Results

Although Dragan Hajduković was a member of the Greens of Montenegro, he ran as an independent.

CandidatePartyVotes%
Filip VujanovićDemocratic Party of Socialists139,57464.25
Miodrag ŽivkovićLiberal Alliance of Montenegro68,16931.38
Dragan HajdukovićIndependent9,5014.37
Total217,244100.00
Valid votes217,24497.97
Invalid/blank votes4,5082.03
Total votes221,752100.00
Registered voters/turnout458,88848.32
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1370 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Montenegro poll fails BBC News, 9 February 2003